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100 Won 17th Issue
| Issuer | Government of the Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1963 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress bond certificate with an elaborate acanthus-scroll border and corner vignettes. The Republic of Korea state emblem appears at top centre, with the denomination 壹百원 in large Chinese and Hangul characters below the issuer title. Serial number in red at upper right, official red seal of the Ministry of Finance at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | 大韓民國政府 壹百원 五分利建國國債證書 第拾七回 財務部長官 西紀一九六三年度發行 (Translation: Government of the Republic of Korea 100 Won 5% National Reconstruction Bond Certificate Issue No. 17 Minister of Finance Issued in 1963) |
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The 17th Issue 100 Won appeared during a particularly unstable stretch of South Korean monetary history — the military government under Park Chung-hee had seized power in 1961 and pushed through a currency reform that same year, redenominating the Hwan at 10:1 to create the new Won. This note, issued two years into that reform, reflects the government's effort to establish the credibility of a currency that had no peacetime track record and was still regarded with deep public skepticism.
Production by the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation marked a deliberate move toward domestic printing self-sufficiency, breaking from earlier dependence on foreign security printers.